Conformity In The 1950s

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public opinion and shaped politics in America into a Cold War.
The public conformed towards the American Dream. Everyone wanted a home in Levittown, a car, a television set and a functional nuclear family. To be different from the norm put Americans in danger of being blacklisted as Communists. Low-interest mortgage insurance provided by the FHA made it possible for returning GI’s to start their own families. Cars also came at incredibly affordable prices as well. Suburbia became the center of social conformity and became the ideal for American culture.
On the social aspect, women returned to the weak and demure image of helpless women. “Momism” became the term to describe the ideal household women in the 1950s. As always, men dominated the suburban household. People once again became religious in fear of being accused otherwise. Female sexuality became a shocking issue of the 50s. With the moral of Christian culture, premarital sex and other lewd acts were shunned from ...

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